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Amazon to create 100 jobs in Dublin
The online retailer is seeking people to work as support engineers and software developers as well as in other roles. The announcement has been welcomed by the IDA and Minister Richard Bruton.
Nine of the most bizarre Amazon reviews
Wacky, weird, and downright wonderful.
Amazon founder 'locates lost Apollo 11 rockets'
The rocket engines were last seen pushing the Apollo 11 mission into space ahead of its successful moon landing in 1969.
The 9 at 9: Thursday
Nine things to know this morning…
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
TCD among research group awarded €3m for anti-inflammatory project
The project will investigate the use of plants from the Amazon rainforest on immune processes.
Waterstone's to ditch the apostrophe from its name
Waterstone’s says dropping the apostrophe is “more versatile and practical” in a digital world.
Hollywood's James Franco agrees Amazon deal for new novel: report
The actor-turned-writer published a short story collection in 2010, but looks set to publish his first novel with the online retailer.
The Daily Fix: Thursday
In tonight’s fix: Irish people’s biggest worry for 2012, a rise in the number of tourists visiting Ireland (finally!) – and time travel exists. Kind of.
Amazon: Over 1 million Kindles were sold each week in December
Christmas Day was the biggest day ever for Kindle book downloads, Amazon said today.
Gallery: Is this where your Christmas presents are coming from?
Incredible photos of Amazon’s vast shipping warehouses in the UK – one of which is the size of 14 football pitches.
Kindle users will be able to borrow books from Amazon - but only in the US
Users have to subscribe to Amazon’s movie streaming service to borrow books from the Kindle library.
Amazon profits nosedive as it takes on Apple in tablet war
The company is selling Kindles at a loss to compete with the iPad – driving its profits down by 73 per cent.
Actress suing IMDb for revealing that she is 40
An actress, who (unsurprisingly) wishes to remain anonymous, has filed a lawsuit against IMDb’s parent company, Amazon, for revealing that she is “over the hill” – her words, not ours.
Peru: Police rescue almost 300 women forced into sexual slavery
The Peruvian authorities have rescued almost 300 women they believe are the victims of human trafficking – the youngest girl discovered by police is just 13 years old.
Amazon launches the Kindle Fire tablet to rival iPad, here's how it works
Running on Google’s Android system, the price could be a big pull for those in the market for tablet computers.
Amazon and Intel to showcase jobs at Dublin event next month
Pfizer, Ericsson and Deloitte are also among the companies who’ll be represented at the Career Zoo in the Mansion House.
Amazon's chief executive wants your phone to have an airbag
Jeff Bezos has failed papers for a patent that’ll fit an airbag to your phone – saving it from damage if you let it fall.
ESB denies that lightning caused last weekend's Amazon power cut
The ESB has said that it was a transformer failure that caused the outage on Sunday. Amazon’s backup generators failed after the power cut.
Amazon to do battle with iPad with tablet of its own
It will reportedly run Google’s Android operating system.
The 9 at 9: Thursday
Nine things to know this morning…Gilmore seeks urgent Vatican meeting, Troika chiefs set to deliver verdict, great news for Sligo design students, and a date with Justin Timberlake.
Tesco, Ryanair and UPC come bottom of the social networking table
A new study has found that some big brands have no social media features on their eCommerce sites at all, while others, like HMV, Amazon and Irish site Elverys are making the most of the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
Brazil's rainforests under threat after agricultural lobby wins key vote
A law initially intended to protect rainforests from deforestation has been influenced so much by the the country’s powerful agricultural lobby that the law as it is now looks set to actually threaten them.
Only a joke, like: Royal wedding 'gypsy' spoof taken off the shelves
Tesco has taken the spoof of the recent royal wedding off its shelves after complaints of racism from the travelling community.
The death of ink? Amazon's e-books outsell print editions
Amazon says it now sells 5 per cent more books through its electronic Kindle store than it does in hard paper copies.
The Daily Fix: Thursday
Our collection of the day’s news, developments and random tidbits.
Amazon's cloud crash disaster permanently destroyed many customers' data
Last week’s web services crash yet to be fully explained by the internet giant.
Amazon cloud computing outage hits Reddit, FourSquare, Quora
Sites struck by outage at Amazon server based in North Virigina.
US author of paedophile guide gets two years' probation
Phillip Greaves caused controversy last year when he published his guide as an e-book on Amazon and it made it into the top 100 bestsellers.
Satellite photos show damage to the earth caused by humans
Some of the destruction caused by humans destroying rainforests, draining marshes and drilling for fossil fuels has been captured by Nasa satellite photographs.
Apple lodges Amazon lawsuit over 'app store'
Online retailer criticised for use of the term ‘app store’ – just before it launched it Android app store.
Book of blank pages becomes surprise Amazon bestseller
The online retailer sells out of the novelty notebook, masquerading as an expose on what men worry about – other than sex.
Chevron fined $8.6bn for Amazon pollution
The oil giant has been fined billions after a court ruled it had dumped toxic waste in the Amazon’s rainforest and rivers – at a massive environmental and human cost.
In photos: rare glimpse of 'uncontacted' Amazonian tribe
Survival International in Brazil has released several highly rare and detailed images taken from the air of uncontacted Indians.
The 9 at 9: Tuesday
Nine things you need to know by 9am: Cowen prepares to dissolve the Dail; Gaybo forced to explain why he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and the first photos of a rare Amazonian tribe.
Take 5: Friday
5 minutes, 5 stories ,5 o’clock.
Kindle ebook sales now higher than paperbacks on Amazon
Website sells 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperbacks.
Amazon temporarily pulls book advising ways to manipulate the site
Ebook author says his publication was withdrawn by the website which had refused to remove a controversial paedophile’s guide from their listings two months ago.
The 9 at 9: Thursday
Nine things you need to know by 9am: As hospitals are hit by the worst bed crisis in years, VHI announces price increases; Gerry Ryan’s autopsy report, and the big snow is coming back.
Amazon says site downtime not caused by ‘hacktivist’ group
The online retailer – which went down for 30 minutes last night – says its disruption was the cause of a technical fault.
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